Developer grievances about Apple have been simmering for years, and even longtime Apple fans aren't happy about what's been going on lately. This is not a smart path to follow.
They need enthusiastic small developers to help build the Vision Pro ecosystem, and so far it doesn't seem to be going that well.
The grievances have been simmering, but anecdotally at least I haven't known a single developer who is unhappy about it enough to actually switch. Also programming languages/frameworks/platforms are highly sticky. Apple was very smart to make their language/framework non-cross platform (generally speaking. By that I mean, try finding jobs doing Android or even web development in Objective C or Swift. I know it's possible but it's not very practical) and unique to their system.
At the end of the day, developers are users first and foremost, and as users they are thrilled with Apple. Things would have to get pretty damn bad before Apple would need to worry about losing developers.
If developer grievances about Apple have been simmering for years, perhaps they can simmer longer.
Apple will make the change that they're forced to make. Developers aren't forcing anything at the moment, but what exactly are they being forced to do by the EU? That's what's being learned.
As a long time Apple fan myself I'm certain, Apple fans have never been happy. :)
Enthusiastic small developers existed while there was a profitable market. Third party app stores allow piracy and make being a small developer much tougher, I doubt there will be much enthusiasm going ahead
What is happening seems to benefit mostly massive competitors like Epic or Amazon.
The vast majority of iPhone and airpod users have no idea any of this is even happening I imagine. Even among the people who know its happening, even fewer know enough about how these systems work to actually have much of an opinion beyond parroting a headline.
If you act like a bully, and then recede at the slightest resistance, you just come off looking like a fool.